Real-Time Qualitative Ultrasound Elastography of Miscellaneous Non-Nodal Neck Masses: Applications and Limitations

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1644-1652

  Bhatia, Kunwar S S ^a   Rasalkar, Darshana D ^a   Lee, Yim Ping ^a   Wong, Ka Tak ^a   King, Ann D ^a   Yuen, Yuen Hok ^a   Ahuja, Anil T ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Elastography; Masses; Neck; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL IMAGING; ELASTOGRAMS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FLUID CONTENT; LOW-TO-HIGH; MASSES; NECK; SOFT TISSUE; TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS; THYROGLOSSAL DUCT CYST; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; VARIABLE STIFFNESS; VASCULAR MALFORMATION;

PATHOLOGY; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPOMA; LYMPHANGIOMA; MALE; NECK TUMOR; NEUROMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE METASTASIS; THYROGLOSSAL DUCT CYST; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CYSTS; DERMOID CYST; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIPOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956651703     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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